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exigences

NOUN

difficulty; demand

Synonyms

WEAK

acuteness constraint contingency crisis criticalness crossroad demandingness dilemma distress duress emergency extremity fix hardship imperativeness jam juncture necessity need needfulness pass pickle pinch plight predicament pressingness pressure quandary requirement scrape stress turning point urgency vicissitude want wont zero hour

Antonyms

WEAK

ease easiness ordinariness

NOUN

demand

Synonyms

WEAK

demands exigencies exigency necessity need needs requirement requirements want

NOUN

crisis

Synonyms

WEAK

circumstance climacteric crossroad difficulty dilemma emergency exigency fix hardship head juncture pickle pinch predicament quandary turning point urgency zero hour

Example Sentences

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Only the exigences of labor can excuse verbal intercourse.

From The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon by Cullum, Ridgwell

To obviate future exigences, Constantia betook herself once more to the needle.

From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

He recollected that the engagement on his part was voluntary and explicit, and he disdained to urge his present exigences as reasons for retracting it.

From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

Owing to the exigences of space, weighing-scales and pumps are included in the agricultural building, and the exhibition of Fairbanks & Co. deserves and receives cordial approval.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various

This may be fully allowed, yet it does not meet the exigences of the case.

From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry